Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.